Teaching Games For Understanding

Health and Physical Education
The Curriculum In Action
Teaching For Effective Learning
Years 3-8

Introduction

This book supports the implementation of Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum by providing teachers with ideas for planning units of work to meet the identified needs of students. Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) suggests ways in which teachers can foster tactical awareness and skill instruction within the Physical Activity key are of learning. Although the learning experiences present a teaching sequence, teachers are not expected to implement all the suggested activities or necessarily to follow the sequence suggested. To meet the learning needs of their students, teachers may use all or parts of this book and may also select activities from other resources.

















Why provide opportunity for Teaching Games for Understanding?

Games are a physical activity in which the underlying concept of tactics a...